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legal ethical final
legal ethical final 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Title VII of the Civil Rights Act | prohibits sex discrimination in employment for employers with 15 or more employees |
| Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments | prohibits sex discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance |
| EEOC definition of sexual harassment | unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or pysical conduct of a sexual nature |
| Four Finger Test | to determine whether or not sexual harassment has occurred |
| parts of the Four Finger Test | the words or behaviors are unwelcome, they are sexual in nature, they are severe or pervasive, tey adversely impact ones ability to work or learn or require the individual to tolerate a hostile environment |
| Gender harassment | generalized sexist statements and beavior that convey insulting, degrading and jsexist attitudes |
| seductive behavior | unwanted, inappropriate, and offensive physical or verbal sexual advances |
| sexual bribery | solicitation of sexual activity or other sex-linked behavior by promise of reward |
| sexual coercion | coercion of sexual activity or other sex-linked behavior by threat of punishment |
| sexual assault | assault and/or rape |
| "Quid Pro Quo" | "This for that" always involves two parties with unequal power base |
| What to do if sexually harassed | communicate dissatisfaction with the behavior, keep a record, seek support, report the behavior |
| physical or mechanical restraint | any manual method or physical device, material, or equipment, attached or adjacent to a patients body that physically restricts that persons freedom of movement, or normal access to his or her body |
| physical or mechanical restraints include | leg, wrist and arm straps, hand mitts, soft ties, wheel chair safety bar, locked gerichairs, seclusion or involuntary confinement |
| chemical restraints | drugs administered for the purposes of dicipline or convenience and not required to treat the residents medical condition or durgs that are used to limit the physical movement of the patient |
| chemical restraints include | long acting benzodiaziapines, narcotics, analgesics, antipsycohtics, sedatives or hypnotics, and antihistamines |
| restrained patients have a greater incidence of___ and an increased risk of | falls and injury |
| the most frequent complication for a patient in the hospital is an adverse drug reaction and the most frequent drug category is | psychotropic agents |
| decreased lung expansion, decreased orthostatic competency, muscle weakness, contracture formation, loss of contience, constipation, withdraw, depressed, delirious | complications of restraint use |
| american medical surgical nursing association (AMSN) supports | a restraint free environment |
| American nurses Association (ANA) believes | only when no other viable option is available should restraints be used |
| passed 1987 implemented 1990 | The Nursing Home Reform Act |
| The Nursing Home Reform Act | addressed pt. assessment and planning, encouraged avoidance of pysical restraints and psychotropic drugs, and increased patient rights and quality of care |
| Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) | 1992-mandated tat all restraint devices carry a warning label outlining potential hazards and in 1996- restraint devices need FDA approval for marketing and sale |
| Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) | 1991-issued restraint and seclusion guidelines requiring hospitals to provide documentation about restraint need, give time frames for medical orders, and observations of restrained patients |
| 1996-issued standards that limit the restraint and seclusion use to clinically justified situations and may seek to reduce restraint use | JCAHO |
| written orders for restraints are limited to | four hours for adults, two hours for children/adolecents ages 9-17, and one hour for children under the age of 9 |
| restraint orders must be rewritten by the physician who originally wrote the order every | 24 hours |
| PRN orders for restraints are | not acceptable |
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